Extract from Lords debate on Young Adults: Public Service Funding - Jul 18
Friday, 19 July 2019 08:31
Lord Touhig (Lab):...At the end of the day, cutting public spending
to this degree will have an adverse impact, and this can be
life-changing for our children and young people. In 2017, an old
friend of mine, the former MP and Minister—and now the South Wales
Police and Crime Commissioner—Alun Michael, spoke about the
positive results that early intervention can have for young people.
He wrote that early intervention in support of children who had
endured adverse childhood experiences saw...Request free trial
(Lab):...At the end of the
day, cutting public spending to this degree will have an adverse
impact, and this can be life-changing for our children and young
people. In 2017, an old friend of mine, the former MP and
Minister—and now the South Wales Police and Crime
Commissioner—, spoke about the positive
results that early intervention can have for young people. He wrote
that early intervention in support of children who had endured
adverse childhood experiences saw a 60% cut in violence, a 65% cut
in incarceration, a 24% cut in smoking, and a 66% cut in the
use of heroin and crack cocaine. The early intervention he spoke
about involved parents, teachers, social and health workers and the
police. We need a cross-government commitment to develop strategies
like the one was speaking about, and these
will need to be adequately financed. Failure to do so will consign
a generation and more of children and young people to a quality of
life that none of us in this House would ever tolerate for
ourselves...
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